Up until now, the WCF RIA Services team has always published 2 installers with each release:
The actual "Product" bits - What gets installed as WCF RIA Services (with a specific version number) The additional "Toolkit" bits - What gets installed as WCF RIA Services Toolkit The Product installer is where our official product features reside. This includes our core .NET and Silverlight assemblies such as the LinqToEntitiesDomainService and the Silverlight DomainDataSource control. The Toolkit is where we've put features that we want to distribute but that don't (yet?) make the cut for being part of the official product. This is where you'll find our experimental T4 Code Generation feature, the Windows Azure Table Storage integration, the LinqToSqlDomainService, and the ASP.NET DomainDataSource control.
We have a lot more agility within the Toolkit and we've always said internally that we could put out Toolkit releases more frequent ...
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